Solostamenides

Solostamenides is a genus which belongs to the family Microcotylidae and class Monogenea.

Solostamenides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Monogenea
Subclass:
Polyopisthocotylea
Family:
Microcotylidae
Subfamily:
Microcotylinae
Genus:
Solostamenides

Unnithan, 1971

Morphology

As all Monogenea, species of Solostamenides are ectoparasites that affect their host by attaching themselves as larvae on the gills of the fish and grow into adult stage. This larval stage is called oncomiracidium, and is characterized as free swimming and ciliated.[1]

Members of the genus Solostamenides are characterised by a penis in which only the head is armed with spines, a muscular genital atrium and a single middorsal unarmed vaginal pore.[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species,[2] this genus includes 5 species:

  • Solostamenides mugilis (Vogt, 1879) Unnithan, 1971
  • Solostamenides paucitesticulatus Kritsky & Öktener, 2015
  • Solostamenides platyorchis Zhang & Yang, 2001
  • Solostamenides pseudomugilis (Hargis, 1957) Unnithan, 1971

• Solostamenides iraqensis (Fatima Shihab Al-Nasiri) 2018

References
  1. Unnithan, R. V. (1971). On the functional morphology of a new fauna of Monogenoidea on fishes from Trivandrum and environs. Part IV. Microcotylidae sensu stricto and its repartition into subsidiary taxa. American Midland Naturalist, 366-398.
  2. WoRMS (2019). Solostamenides Unnithan, 1971. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119386 on 2019-11-27
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